Example sentences of "to protect [pron] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | A security source said : ‘ The Army , in partnership with the police , aim , through their physical presence , to show the whole community that the security forces are present to protect everyone against terrorist attack , from whatever paramilitary organisation it may come . ’ |
| 2 | I like to haver this dog to protect me against gorgeous women . |
| 3 | The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 4 | Workers looked to the national state , over which democracy gave them some influence , to protect them against the ravages of an unregulated world economy . |
| 5 | To protect them against immersion , they have a waterproof coating . |
| 6 | The Meskhetians , another of the ‘ punished peoples ’ , had been moved from their traditional homelands near the Turkish-Soviet border in 1944 , ostensibly in order to protect them against the possibility of a German advance . |
| 7 | On Dec. 26 , in an address to the nation , Ukrainian Premier Leonid Kuchma announced that direct payments would be made to the poorest members of society to protect them against the worst effects of the price rises . |
| 8 | Because this time we will take measures to protect ourselves against your duplicity . ’ |
| 9 | For the latter the risk was high and he took even more stringent steps to protect himself against default . |
| 10 | He was wearing an overcoat and leant forward to protect himself against the biting wind . |
| 11 | — The right hon. Gentleman does not need a fig leaf to protect himself against my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover , he needs a suit of armour . |
| 12 | He might have had it with him to protect himself against " an imminent and particular threat " . |
| 13 | ‘ Emily , my poor child , what will you do with no-one to protect you against the world ? ’ |
| 14 | Different types of fibre may help to protect you against different types of disease . |
| 15 | You needed government for defence to protect you against external enemies and to engage in foreign relations and diplomacy , and you needed government internally to regulate conflicts between states er and to ensure a , a sound economic platform so that you needed er a single authoritative source of currency for example er and a single source of er er tariffs and trade controls . |
| 16 | Casting aside Pennzoil 's claims that it had no intention of launching a bid , Chevron moved into top gear to protect itself against a takeover which could be worth $35billion and would revive memories of some of the biggest corporate battles of the 1970 's and 80's . |
| 17 | This offered the temptation to Government to use section 2 to protect itself against potentially damaging disclosures . |
| 18 | Agnes Smedley 's heroine , Marie , talks about having to shut her mother out , shut off from her , in order to protect herself against her mother 's extraordinary cruelty — while Adrienne Rich works on the feeling of severance , of being deprived of her mother in a culture which insists that the daughters turn away from the mother toward the father . |
| 19 | She had to keep inventing ruses to protect herself against this resident ratpack , one of which was perpetual creativity through weaving a tapestry which she never finished . |
| 20 | However , with a gene transplant , doctors at Great Ormond Street — who have been working with scientists from the University of Leiden in Holland — hope to reprogramme Carly 's genes to enable her to protect herself against infection . |
| 21 | His raincoat was turned up at the collar , but not to protect him against the rain , for he always wore it that way . |
| 22 | She wished to bring an action against her employers alleging that they had been negligent in failing adequately to protect her against the known risk of injury from this pupil . |
| 23 | She tried to invoke the memory of sudsy hot water to protect her against their smell but it was no help . |
| 24 | Its curly conker-red coat is thick enough to protect it against the cold and wet but becomes smooth and sleek in warmer weather . |
| 25 | A unit of traditional authority survived indeed in the Church ; but that rather favoured the independent cities , for with few exceptions each had its own cathedral and its own bishop ; often its own patron saint to protect it against its neighbours . |
| 26 | Most lenders of money , e.g. banks and building societies , insist that a home owner takes out an insurance for the worth of the building , to protect it against being accidentally destroyed . |
| 27 | Keeping in moisture to protect it against all manner of evils . |
| 28 | Local militia had to protect it against enthusiastic souvenir hunters . |
| 29 | The hairs are long to protect it against the bitter alpine nights . |
| 30 | The mammoth had a shaggy coat to protect it against the rigours of the ice ages . |